Iran, Islamic Rep.

1. Government effectiveness

2. Rule of law

3. Political stability

4. Regulatory quality

5. Corruption

1. Extent of market dominance

2. Domestic credit to private sector

3. Cluster development

4. R&D expenditure

5. Population covered by at least a 3G mobile network

6. Internet access in schools

7. Urbanisation

1. Labour rights

2. Labour-employer cooperation

3. Professional management

4. Relationship of pay to productivity

5. Enterprise software

6. Cloud computing

7. Firms with website

1. FDI regulatory restrictiveness

2. Financial globalisation

3. Migrant stock

4. International students

5. Brain gain

6. AI skills migration

1. Tolerance of minorities

2. Tolerance of immigrants

3. Social mobility

4. Economic empowerment of women

5. Gender parity in high-skilled jobs

6. Leadership opportunities for women

1. Vocational enrolment

2. Tertiary enrolment

3. Tertiary education expenditure

4. Reading, maths, and science

5. University ranking

1. Business masters education

2. Prevalence of training in firms

3. Employee development

1. Delegation of authority

2. Youth inclusion

3. Use of virtual social networks

4. Use of virtual professional networks

1. Pension coverage

2. Social protection

3. Brain retention

4. Environmental performance

5. Vulnerable employment

6. Protect Against Future Disasters

7. Household Financial Resilience

1. Personal rights

2. Personal safety

3. Physician density

4. Sanitation

5. Employee Wellbeing / Happiness score (life ladder)

1. Workforce with secondary education

2. Population with secondary education

3. Technicians and associate professionals

4. Labour productivity per employee

1. Ease of finding skilled employees

2. Relevance of education system to the economy

3. Skills matching

4. Highly educated unemployment

1. Workforce with tertiary education

2. Soft Skills

3. Professionals

4. Researchers

5. Senior officials and managers

6. Digital skills

7. AI talent concentration

1. ICT services exports

2. Mobile apps development

3. Intellectual property receipts (% of total trade)

4. High-value exports

5. Software development

6. New business density

7. Scientific journal articles